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Our nation's debt is literally indenturing our children to our international debt holders, but most Americans don't care because they are more concerned about the latest saga involving Snooki on Jersey Shore rather than what really matters, our country’s future.

Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t
pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S.
population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal
benefits.

“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding
growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach
and Patrick Tyrrell. “The percentage of people who do not pay federal
income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does
pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”